Semantic Layer Contract Job Trends in England

Semantic Layer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Semantic Layer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 501 550
Rank change year-on-year -58 +49 +66
Contract jobs citing Semantic Layer 64 5 5
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.14% 0.018% 0.014%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.93% 0.100% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 4 4
10th Percentile £413 £375 -
25th Percentile £488 £471 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £606
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -5.15% +1.04%
75th Percentile £700 £606 £725
90th Percentile £744 £618 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £606
% change year-on-year -4.35% -5.15% +5.43%

All Database & BI Skills
England

Semantic Layer falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,879 5,006 6,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 18.31% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,595 3,459 4,565
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £675
90th Percentile £700 £765 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 84 102
10th Percentile £15.99 £18.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £23.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.99 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -10.85% -28.64%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £71.33
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £38.48 £38.00
% change year-on-year +7.48% +1.26% -30.91%

Semantic Layer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Semantic Layer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Semantic Layer job vacancy trend in England

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Semantic Layer

Semantic Layer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Semantic Layer in England over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Semantic Layer in England

Semantic Layer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Semantic Layer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -25 41 £538 -2.27% 33
North of England - 10 £550 - 7
North West - 7 £425 - 4
South West - 5 £725 - 1
South East -68 3 £600 +30.43% 9
Yorkshire - 3 £675 - 3
East of England - 2 £500 -
Midlands -55 1 - -
West Midlands -60 1 - -
Semantic Layer
UK

Semantic Layer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.56%) Apache
2 1 (1.56%) Appian
2 1 (1.56%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
3 1 (1.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (51.56%) Power Platform
2 17 (26.56%) Azure
3 13 (20.31%) dbt
4 11 (17.19%) Snowflake
5 9 (14.06%) SaaS
6 7 (10.94%) GCP
7 6 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (7.81%) AWS
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon Neptune
10 3 (4.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (4.69%) GitHub
11 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 2 (3.13%) Anthropic Claude
11 2 (3.13%) Dataform
11 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (3.13%) Semaphore
11 2 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (1.56%) AWS KMS
12 1 (1.56%) Fivetran
12 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (51.56%) Power BI
2 17 (26.56%) Looker
3 14 (21.88%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (21.88%) Metadata
3 14 (21.88%) Star Schema
4 12 (18.75%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (17.19%) BigQuery
6 8 (12.50%) Delta Lake
7 6 (9.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 6 (9.38%) Power Query
8 5 (7.81%) Data Lake
8 5 (7.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (7.81%) Tableau
9 4 (6.25%) Data Mart
9 4 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (6.25%) Stardog
10 3 (4.69%) Data Vault
10 3 (4.69%) QlikView
10 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
10 3 (4.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (4.69%) JIRA
3 2 (3.13%) ER Studio
3 2 (3.13%) ERwin
4 1 (1.56%) PowerDesigner
General
1 25 (39.06%) Finance
2 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Retail
4 5 (7.81%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Marketing
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.56%) Local Government
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (31.25%) Architect
2 15 (23.44%) Data Architect
3 10 (15.63%) Data Engineer
3 10 (15.63%) Senior
4 7 (10.94%) Data Modeller
5 3 (4.69%) Business Intelligence Lead
5 3 (4.69%) Data Manager
5 3 (4.69%) Developer
5 3 (4.69%) Lead
5 3 (4.69%) SAP Architect
5 3 (4.69%) Senior Architect
5 3 (4.69%) Senior Data Architect
6 2 (3.13%) BigQuery Data Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (3.13%) Head of AI
6 2 (3.13%) Power BI Developer
6 2 (3.13%) SAP Data Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) PySpark
2 3 (4.69%) JSON
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Jena
3 2 (3.13%) JSON-LD
4 1 (1.56%) FHIR
4 1 (1.56%) Kafka
4 1 (1.56%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.56%) REST
4 1 (1.56%) SWRL
4 1 (1.56%) XML
4 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (14.06%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.25%) Clustering
3 4 (6.25%) Taxonomies
4 3 (4.69%) AI Agents
4 3 (4.69%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Linked Data
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.56%) IoT
6 1 (1.56%) Life Science
6 1 (1.56%) NHS
6 1 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (78.13%) Analytics
2 49 (76.56%) Data Modelling
3 47 (73.44%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (39.06%) AI
5 21 (32.81%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (31.25%) Data Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Migration
8 15 (23.44%) CI/CD
8 15 (23.44%) Data Governance
9 13 (20.31%) Data Architecture
9 13 (20.31%) Use Case
10 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (17.19%) Dimensional Modelling
11 11 (17.19%) Performance Optimisation
12 10 (15.63%) Data Transformation
12 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
13 9 (14.06%) Machine Learning
13 9 (14.06%) Workflow
14 8 (12.50%) Validation
15 6 (9.38%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 35 (54.69%) SQL
2 15 (23.44%) Python
3 10 (15.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (9.38%) LookML
5 3 (4.69%) SHACL
5 3 (4.69%) SPARQL
6 1 (1.56%) Cypher
6 1 (1.56%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.69%) Azure Certification
1 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.56%) SnowPro
3 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (34.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (4.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (3.13%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.56%) HL7
5 1 (1.56%) SLA
5 1 (1.56%) SNOMED CT
Systems Management
1 1 (1.56%) Apache Ranger
1 1 (1.56%) Grafana
1 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Databricks
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.81%) SAP
3 3 (4.69%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) Ariba
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Foundry
5 1 (1.56%) Informatica
5 1 (1.56%) Palantir
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.56%) Sparx